"What's past is prologue": Performing Shakespeare and Aboriginality in Australia

• Authors: Emma Cox
• Languages of publication: EN
• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 23
• Pages: 71-92

Dates

published

2011-11-30

Contributors

author

Emma Cox

• Royal Holloway, University of London, Great Britain

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10224-011-0006-5